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| Title: John A. Johnson High School, St. Paul, Minn.
Date: (unknown) Style of postcard suggests approximately 1920. Identification: Divided back style card; 50317; No. 386 - Published by Minneapolis Selling Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Caption: "One of our four High Schools. Cost, $155,000. Has besides regular course, manual training and domestic science courses, fully equipped gymnasium with 20 shower baths, auditorium seating 600, moving picture machine which is used also in evening social center classes, accommodates about 700 pupils, Faculty of forty. St. Paul has nearly $4,000,000 educational investment." Notes: This building was closed when a new Johnson High School was built in the 1960s about a mile to the north. It was eventually remodeled and opened in the fall of 2000 as John A. Johnson Achievement Plus Elementary School. Technically this school, at 740 York Ave, is just outside of Dayton's Bluff but many residents did attend it. There was a friendly neighborhood rivalry with Harding High School located at the corner of Third and Earl Streets, about a mile to the east. |